The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1887-09-03
Items of Interest.

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| The State Educational Association i'm ses-
sion at Shreveport the Oath ult, heartily
recommend the passage by Congress, Of the
| Blair Educational Bill.
West Baton Rouge Sugar Planter: Gen
! Leon Jastremski, of Baton Rouge, whose
name has been enrolled among the candidates
| for Congress in this district, has published a
disclaimer, denying that he is a candidate. OF
| that he authorized the use of his name in thai
connection.
The Farmerville Advocate touching npor
the dictatorial reformers, says:
| ''As the Nichols boom is day by day rapid
| ly decreasing, its adherents are growing des
perate, and ere now reckiessly seeking to co
eree the free and intelligent electors of this
| State to align themselves in behalf of their
| sinking craft
Force of long habit has impressed the idea
that cold weather is the time to fatten hogs.
But both theory and experiment agree that
mild weather gives most economical results
| The aim of every farmer who has pork to kill
/ should be to have the hogs ready for the
knife by the first to the middle of November.
Southern Cultiyator: The town of Wash
| ington, Iowa, during January and February
| last, shipped $90, 900 worth of horses, and that
amount of money was distributed among the
ho.se-breeders of the place. Now. it is just
such statements as this that are waking up
| the farmers of the South, and horse and mule,
breeding are soon to become paying features
Of stock-raising in our section.
| A desperate effort is being made in certain
sections of the North to fan into life the en-
hers Of the old Konw-nothing party-an effort
| attended in some quarters with considerable
success. In Philadelphia it is said the Know
nothing party is being thoroughly organized
| to take part in the next campaign. The reli
| giOus plank is to be left out of the platform
but the restriction of emigration will be a ear
dinal principle of the creed.
| Southern Cuitiyator: The Greenviile tAla.)
/ Advocate, in copying from the Cultiyator the
article OF DIR. Daniel Lee on Raising Mules
and Horses, adds this comment: 1t is well
established fact that it pays to raise horses
and mules in this State, and why more men
/ are not engaged in this profitable employment
has long been one of the unfathomable mys
| teriea to us. Occasionally We hear of some
progressive farmer selling at a good price an
animal-the product OF his farm-but such in
| stances are extremely rare.
Ceneordia Sentinel: It begins to look as
| though the reformers were destined to run
out Of campaign material a long way in ad-
| vance of the time when the gubernatorial con-
| test shall end by the nomination of the peo
ple's choice, whoever that may prove to be.
| The cry of personalism did not materialize,
when they came to look around for facts; and
| their latest, the third term racket, has been
nipped in the bud by simply reminding the
people that Gov McEnery will only have
served one term and half at the expiration OF
| his present service.
What the reform press in their dire extreni
/ IT, will catch at next, remains to be seen.
| The st. Charles Herald sends up this wall
The German Gazette is opposed to Nichols
because his nomination means the continue
ton in power of the City Hall officials, Fitz
| patrick, MeaIey, Patton ct ais. That paper
| favors w b. Schmidt of the house of Schmidt
& Ziegler for Mayor. There goes the Ger
man vote from Nichols and all on account OF
his surroundings. just as we predicted.
| Another wall from the same paper: Mr..
w. Patton is out in an address to the people
in favor of Gen. Nichols. Truly, the candi
| dacy of this good man is burdened with tons
of dead weights. General Nichols cause was
weak enough, we thought, with the big 4's,
now comes Bulldozer Patton to make compli-
cations more complicated, and doubts more
doubtful. These things, no doubt, arise from
| General Nichols want of familiarity with the
management of political campaigns and he
trusts his case to ipjudicious leaders. Such
men do more harm to his cause than good, and
we say in all sincerity, that the Nichols
cause is doomed to defeat unless he discards
the political barnacles that will destroy his
candidacy. Unload, General, by all means
/ unload